Paperless Classroom

Paperless Classroom - Resources and Notes: Presenter - Mary Hall

A poetry project based on the study of a poem selected by the students for in depth study.

Edublogs

A blog created to communicate about WSD's alliance with the Anti-defamation League (ADL)

MY Access!

An online literacy program

Wikispaces

A collaboration forum for students who were working on public service announcements as part of their study of Our Town and Romeo and Juliet.
Paperless classroom
The presenter shared information about tools she uses to create a paperless classroom. She did share that there are times when she does still have students print.

More Collaboration Tools
wikis: http://wikispaces.com
Blogs: edublogs.org
Voicethread http://voicethread.com
Discussion boards available in moodle or blackboard

Bloggers Notes:

Turning In Work

• Use a file naming protocol: mHall_CFFKeynote.key is an example of what she uses.
• To get work from and back to students she suggested Moodle or Blackboard

Blogs: edublog, voicethread are ways to give individuals feedback, the issue is that it is not private.

Turnitin: interface through Moodle

For Assessment/Feedback consider the following tools:

• Artificial intelligence
• Mark-up view in Word
• Moodle/Blackboard both have features that are good for assessment

For recording/reporting grades consider:

• Electronic gradebook
• Web posting of grades
• Moodle/Blackboard
• Online programs

Problems that can be encountered in a paperless classroom:

• Returning work to students
• Access by all students to computers out side of school
• Students not having access to all the software available to them in school

Pluses of a paperless classroom

• Work can be turned in at any time or place
• Teacher can receive at any time or place via networked computer
• Multiple readers can read simultaneously
• Appearance is uniform
• Ability to refer to linked information (papers are not linear, but are meshed like the Internet).
• Supports multimedia projects

Things I've been reading

Christel, Mary T. and Scott Sullivan, ed. Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms.NCTE: Urbana, IL, 2007.

Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms.Corwin Press: Thousand Oaks, CA, 20006.

Furr III, Grover C. From “Paperless Classroom to “Deep Reading”? Five Stages in Internet Pedagogy. 1/29/2008. http://technologysource.org 9/2003